Description:
1872 ROMA. Azione di 250 Lire. Serie 2. brown, green. No 1858. Large, square format, with many beautiful vignettes of agricultural scenes, Mercury and Fortuna, little angels, etc., also flags and arms of Italy. View of the Via Appia, with Roman tombs and aqueduct. The view is rather different today. Text in Italian (lire), also French and (bad) English, with currency in francs. Fold. Must be one of the prettiest Italian shares from the 1870s, just after Italian unification.